• Creddit@lemmy.world
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    I think they probably wake up thinking exclusively about how to increase their net worth, through politics and marketing, at the expense of low information voters.

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      I’m going to keep saying this until it sticks. The most profitable and valuable thing that human beings have ever discovered or created is information disparity.

      Everyone basically knows the phrase that knowledge is power, but very few people know how to capitalize on that power.

      The way that you capitalize on the power of knowledge is through information disparity.

      Say for instance, you are at a flea market. You see a very good quality copy of action comics number one with Superman on the cover. You ask the seller how much they want for it and they say oh those are my sons old comics, I’ll sell you the whole box for $5.

      Anyone who knows anything about valuable stuff knows that action comics number one is worth it the minimum a million dollars in decent condition.

      Now you know that for $5 you can get a million dollars. That is how knowledge is power. That is how information disparity works.

      Find ways that you can use information disparity in your favor (without bilking kindly old ladies out of million dollar antiques preferably) and you too will find yourself far more successful than your actual skills and abilities would otherwise qualify you for.

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      Vance, sure, but Trump? He obviously doesn’t think about that kind of shit or is too fuck-stupid to make good decisions because he would be more wealthy than he is now if he hadn’t had a real estate career and just put that money from his family in the market with a professional pulling the strings. He is literally currently shitting the bed with obscenely racist conspiracy shit that is a major turn off to middle of the road voters because he wants to bang the woman whispering them in his ear.

      If there’s one thing racists don’t want, it’s to be able to be called a racist and have that be true. This is a step too far for even some racists. Because now they can’t hide behind the dogwhistles and they don’t want people in their community calling them racists.

      Trump’s ego was and is too big to be able to not take the bait that Harris laid down for him. That’s fucking stupid and not indicative of having any kind of fucking plan (or even the concept of one).

      That’s how fuckstupid Trump is and that’s why I think this is giving him way too much credit. It’s giving exactly the right amount of credit to Vance.

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        I don’t truly in my heart of hearts believe that selling your soul to the devil is possible. The logical Christianity in me says that anyone who would offer to sell their souls is already likely going to hell and so the devil has no need to purchase, and that is further tempered by the idea that All souls are the property of God and you can’t sell something you don’t own.

        That being said, if I had to pick one person on this planet who I had to testify before a grand jury that I believed they had sold their souls to the devil I would pick Donald J Trump.

        The man has no skills. He didn’t even write his book The art of the deal. He was born into wealth but many people are born into wealth and fall into poverty and yet somehow despite an entire lifetime of financial ineptitude he is still wealthy.

        He has done so much shady shit that any person who did not have the protection of a dark force would be in prison right now for and he is currently under indictment for several Grand felonies and he still running for president and still has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning.

        He has 35% of American voters believing in him. Nearly 100 million people willing to throw their once every 4 years chance for deciding the fate of America to him.

        His wife is a model and even though he’s cheated on her credibly with a pornstar, Stormy Daniels, and had a lawyer pay her off with election funds, she has not divorced him.

        If Donald J Trump is not the servant of Satan, signed and bound in an eternal contract, then the fact that he exists is a scathing indictment of the flaws of modern capitalism and why the whole system should be burnt to the ground.